The FORGOTTEN DAYS revisited

Yes, I’m still on the water making headway North. It’s like being attached to a ROCKET and you can’t get off. PHANTOM likes to run so I’ve just decided to let her go! Tomorrow may be a  

We’ll make it out of Florida tomorrow. From here, up the ICW and into Savannah is about 100 water miles. We could probably have made it if we could have gone outside into the Atlantic but this rain today would present too much hassle for us. Once we get along the GA coast, we’ll have plenty of places to duck into…. hopefully.

We’ve had a speed run up the East coast of Florida. We had a easy run across Lake Okeechobee on Saturday all the way to Ft Pierce. Up the next morning and off at 7:15 for St. Augustine. On our way we found a better price for fuel and docking fees so we stopped about an hour short. I had some friends who were docked across the ICW and they wanted us to stop there but couldn’t get them on the phone so we just started winding down a little.

Later I received a text from John & Angie inviting me to dinner. They picked me up and took me to Publix to stock up on some staples. First shopping trip to a grocery while on the Loop. Dinner was nice and I now know all the history about John’s family! Good food but I was falling asleep. when I got back to the boat I sat down and started writing this blog.

While writing I kept dozing off. I woke up and decided it was finally time to post and send it off. Half dazed & tired, I was going to bed BUT deleted the whole thing! Had no energy to re-write, so I struggled and went to bed.

Tomorrow with the rain and high winds is going to be my biggest challenge. We want to go outside into the Atlantic because there is a place in the ICW that says the depth is only 2/4 feet in places. We can’t get through there with a 5’ draft so we have to be very flexible tomorrow. It appears the inReach tracking deice is working well. The map is working well and if you click on a point it will give you the info on the place and when we passed by there.

I’ve taken quite a few photos and a few videos. I will post those too as soon as I learn how. The other issue is I still have not identified new crew to join me onward after Joe leaves around 1 May. Bruno, a friend from Tarpon Springs joined us Saturday night when Bruce brought me some things I had forgotten. As we head into Georgia’s coast tomorrow, I’m sure things will get to be more interesting. Much different ICW as well as strange coastline. I’ll try try to write more about what’s happening on a regular basis.